I don't think the difficulty of the Lua language is the issue. Lua is very easy for web developers (same abstraction level as JS). The issue is that a great num

I don't think the difficulty of the Lua language is the issue. Lua is very easy for web developers (same abstraction level as JS). The issue is that a great number of Lua developers enjoy abusing the metaprogramming functionalities for basic APIs. Not everything needs to be a meta table, a simple method call or getter/setter function is more than sufficient.